ISBN 0-14-006536-9 (UK pbk, 1983)

"In an unerring, corrosively comic depiction of a campus in revolt, Richard Fariña evokes the 1960s as surely as F.Scott Fitzgerald captured the 1920s. A landlocked, college-age hipster called Gnossos Pappadopoulis weaves his way through the psychedelic landscape, encountering -- among other things -- mescaline, women, demonology, hunting, truth, smuggling, falsehood, gluttony, prayer, science, fetishes, and occasional art. This is a classic novel of an explosive, expansive decade, a book that resonates as social history, sparkles with novelistic inventiveness, and embodies the attitudes of an entire generation." [jacket blurb, UK pbk, 1983]

"This book comes on like the Hallelujah Chorus done by 200 kazoo players with perfect pitch." --Thomas Pynchon.

"Fariña's only novel since he died in a motorcycle accident two days after it's publication." --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space, 1995).